Introduction

This plugin enables BuildBot to send messages to Slack channels everytime a build finishes with a certain status.
It was created specifically for an old version of BuildBot (1.3.0). If you need a Slack adapter for a more recent version of BuildBot, you should use another plugin (https://github.com/rockwelln/buildbot-slack, for instance).

Installation

pip install buildbot-legacy-slack-adapter

Setup

Create a Slack app and setup an incoming webhook (https://api.slack.com/).
In the master.cfg BuildBot configuration file, add the following piece of code:

from buildbot.plugins import reporters

c['services'].append(
    reporters.SlackStatusPush(
        serverUrl=<SLACK_INCOMING_WEBHOOK>,
        wantSteps=True,
        wantProperties=True
    )
)

The plugin supports additional settings that enable you to restrict the builders / builds for which a Slack notification should be sent:

• builders: a list containing the names of the builders whose builds should be monitored (default: all)
• results: a list containing the build completion statuses that should trigger a notification (default: success, warnings, failure, skipped, exception, retry, cancelled)